diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 6ee7043361f..752e77869ca 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -663,6 +663,10 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6965. NN continues to issue block locations for DNs with full disks.
     (Rushabh Shah via kihwal)
 
+    HDFS-6789. TestDFSClientFailover.testFileContextDoesntDnsResolveLogicalURI
+    and TestDFSClientFailover.testDoesntDnsResolveLogicalURI failing on jdk7.
+    (Akira Ajisaka via wang)
+
     BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-6134 AND HADOOP-10150 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
   
       HDFS-6387. HDFS CLI admin tool for creating & deleting an
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDFSClientFailover.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDFSClientFailover.java
index d33d7562cf6..5f136a9e2a2 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDFSClientFailover.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestDFSClientFailover.java
@@ -257,9 +257,8 @@ public class TestDFSClientFailover {
    */
   @Test
   public void testDoesntDnsResolveLogicalURI() throws Exception {
-    NameService spyNS = spyOnNameService();
-    
     FileSystem fs = HATestUtil.configureFailoverFs(cluster, conf);
+    NameService spyNS = spyOnNameService();
     String logicalHost = fs.getUri().getHost();
     Path qualifiedRoot = fs.makeQualified(new Path("/"));
     
@@ -276,8 +275,8 @@ public class TestDFSClientFailover {
    */
   @Test
   public void testFileContextDoesntDnsResolveLogicalURI() throws Exception {
-    NameService spyNS = spyOnNameService();
     FileSystem fs = HATestUtil.configureFailoverFs(cluster, conf);
+    NameService spyNS = spyOnNameService();
     String logicalHost = fs.getUri().getHost();
     Configuration haClientConf = fs.getConf();